Metatron reference in "Gravity's Rainbow".

once again: Thomas Pynchon, way ahead of the pack.

Pynchon books are parapolitical periscopes. Deep-politics and hidden-history masquerading as fiction.

https://twitter.com/s7ephen/status/2032615036284260473

pynchon posting (🧵2 of 6)

https://x.com/s7ephen/status/1991163367059288205

pynchon posting (🧵3 of 6)

https://x.com/s7ephen/status/1938231886536462461

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„In a series of conversations over the last week, Prince Mohammed bin Salman has conveyed to Mr. @realDonaldTrump that he must press toward the destruction of Iran’s hard-line government, the people familiar with the conversations said.

[...]

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/2036438930770329702

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Some government intelligence analysts have told other officials that they think Prince Mohammed sees the war as an opportunity for him to increase Saudi Arabia’s influence throughout the Middle East,

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and that he believes Saudi Arabia can protect itself even if the war continues.”

March 24, 2026

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖄𝖔𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖘 (@nytimes) archive.is/20260324163737…

🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: THE 4-DAY MIRACLE, or How MWEG and a 500-Org Coalition Weaponized Charlie Kirk's Assassination 🚨

1,400 people. 20+ organizations. 3 professionally moderated panels. 4 days after an assassination. Does this sound organic to you?

September 14, 2025 (a Sunday, no less) the "Dignity Over Violence" zoom goes live. The coalition's central resource was a website called turntoward[.]us registered by Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) ONE DAY after Charlie Kirk was shot dead at UVU. Registrant email: internal.support@mweg.org

"Turn Toward." Now say "Turning Point." Did they name the campaign after the dead man's organization to advance their own political agenda?

I'm going to reverse-engineer how you mobilize 20 NGOs in 4 days... because you CAN'T. Not unless the infrastructure was already built.

I dare you, @mormonweg , to explain how these receipts are "absolutely false."

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

STEP 1: You need a pre-existing ACTIVATION LIST. A searchable database of organizations ready to mobilize on command.

The #ListenFirst Coalition has existed since 2017. 500+ organizations. Backbone staff. Working groups. A "Marketing Intelligence Hub." A "Storytelling & Media Relations Hub." Congressional testimony pipeline. Coordinated media with WSJ, WaPo, PBS.

This is the same Listen First project that was described here:

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1986304148367941912

Three big picture observations about the oil surplus (petrodollars/ petroeuros/ petroequities are all downstream of this) pre Hormuz

A) The oil surplus is modest relative to the surplus in Asia. Chinese state banks and offshore deposits of Chinese exporters are way bigger

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B) Most oil exporters are in deficit or run only modest surpluses with oil in the 60s or 70s. That importantly includes Saudi Arabia, which now has a BoP break even in the 90s

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C) The remaining surpluses are concentrated in Russia (tho its surplus has fallen), frugal Norway and the GCC countries with large SWFs -- who tend to invest most of their surplus in equities (Kuwait is a bit of an exception, recent bond inflows

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The song turned out so good I just had to make the music video for it...

and here's how I did it with AI on freepik! 👇

This is one of the craziest Spaces I've ever crafted on @freepik, cause it combines lipsync with cool animations, keeping the vibe and the characters consistent all along the clip.

Buy you are here for the prompts, right? Lfg!👇

Let's start with a cool prompt for transforming a reference image into a 70s vibes radio dj.

Then generate a 3x3 grid, we need more shots to fill the scene.

We are using Nano Banan 2 here.

Nano Banana 2 Prompt Share

Create mixed-media portraits like these

Made in @LeonardoAi

Prompt below👇

Prompt: Mixed-media portrait of [SUBJECT], [EXPRESSION], [GAZE DIRECTION], with [ACCESSORY/STYLING], realistic identity, black sketch strokes, torn newspaper collage, acrylic paint splashes, editorial print texture, blending realism and abstract expressionism, premium poster aesthetic, tactile handmade feel, high contrast, ultra-detailed face and eyes, [PRIMARY COLORS] and [SECONDARY COLORS]

Prompt: Mixed-media portrait of a young man in his late twenties, light olive skin, short dark wavy hair, subtle stubble, sharp cheekbones, defined jawline, expressive eyes, curious and introspective expression, facing forward, looking directly at the camera, with oversized translucent orange glasses and a black high-collar jacket, realistic identity, black sketch strokes, torn newspaper collage, acrylic paint splashes, editorial print texture, blending realism and abstract expressionism, premium poster aesthetic, tactile handmade feel, high contrast, ultra-detailed face and eyes, cobalt blue and warm orange with off-white and black

🧵Twitter (X) has refused to remove a paid ad advertising a crowdfunding attempt to raise $1 million for the capture of Iranian academic, @s_m_marandi

The campaign is being organized by Terror Alarm, an anonymous group that promotes pro-Israel and pro-Ukraine narratives.

MintPress explores this controversial topic.

Terror Alarm is trying to raise $1 million as a bounty on the head of Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Literature at Tehran University.

X has not only failed to remove the post, but is allowing it to be advertised on its platform.

Let’s simplify the most common bleeding disorder in the world:

von Willebrand Disease (vWD).

​Here is the masterclass on the simplified types, the modern testing updates, and the diagnostic ratio.

🧵👇

#MedTwitter #Hematology

🎩 1. The Hats of vWF

To understand the disease, you must understand the protein. von Willebrand Factor (vWF) wears
two crucial hats in hemostasis:

1️⃣ The Glue: Anchors circulating platelets to damaged blood vessels.

2️⃣ The Bodyguard: Protects FVIII from rapid destruction.

🩸 2. the Types

Think of vWF as a bottle of molecular glue.

•Type 1 (Quantitative): Bottle is half empty. Not enough glue, but what you have works perfectly.

•Type 2 (Qualitative): The glue is defective. It just doesn't stick properly.

• Type 3 (Severe): Bottle is missing.

Given that we all could probably use a bit of lighthearted humor right now, and since it’s been quite some time since my last “News from Romania” thread, here’s an all time best of collection of the funniest and most absurd real bits of news I’ve collected over the years. 🧵

Enjoying the location and not allowing himself to be disheartened by the fact that it was very occupied, a Romanian man built his house right on top of an apartment block.

Due to some obscure piece of legislation and the sheer difficulty of it, the house cannot be demolished.

After having built a brand new school in the village, a mayor made an appeal to his fellow villagers to come help demolish the old decrepit school. The entire community answered the call and, in a misguided zeal of enthusiasm, demolished both schools, old and new.

Excited to get this out in preprint: triple-blind, placebo-controlled microtesla magnetic therapy (MMT) is safe, feasible and effective in reducing cognitive impairment in people with #LongCOVID. I get excited about interventions for cognitive symptoms

1/medrxiv.org/content/10.648…

as they can be so disabling and frightening because you don't know if the symptoms are going to be permanent. This paper makes us feel hopeful that Long COVID cognitive impairment related to neuroinflammation is something that is treatable. This was a first-in-human safety-
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feasibility trial. Typically in trials like this, because they haven't been done in humans and only in animals, we're happy if we see safety and good adherence to the protocol, but we're not usually expecting to see efficacy because the dosage is a bit of a "best guess".
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Black slavery in the USA was not a product of capitalism. In the United States, the NORTH was capitalist. The South was pre-capitalist, and their economy was very different.

For example, in the antebellum South, if you owned a cloth factory, you yourself were a tailor. Your workers were your apprentices, indentured workers, or slaves. They could not leave your employ to go elsewhere. No one would hire them, and you could legally beat them if they tried to leave.

In the North, what you needed to own a cloth factory was money - capital. You invested your money in a factory, then you hired competent workers to man it. They could leave your employ whenever they wanted.

A northern worker would leave you if he could get a better salary elsewhere, so you had to pay your people enough to keep them around. This is how capitalism benefits the workers - with freedom of labor.
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Of course, business owners hate the "freedom of labor" and "freedom of competition" aspects of capitalism, and they are always looking for ways to lock in their workers so we can't leave. This is where NDAs, signing contracts, not-yet-vested stock options, etc. all come from. Even worse things happened - company towns, strikebreakers, and monopolies, all of which are in fact attempts to stifle capitalism in the business owner's favor.

But back when Capitalism was brand-new just before the American Civil War, it worked pretty good, and here were the results:

in 1860, the average northerner was WORTH only half as much as the average southerner. The southerner owned stuff - he owned land, he owned a house, he owned slaves.

The northern factory worker didn't own land, he lived in a flat or townhouse, he had no slaves. So if the northerner was to cash in his wealth, he would seem much poorer than a southerner.

HOWEVER, the average northern had an income about 3 times as much as the average southerner. This was partly because slaves weren't paid much (most masters gave them a pittance), but also because wages were massively depressed because you literally couldn't change jobs, so why should your boss pay you more?
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When northern armies penetrated the South this was hammered home. Letters from soldiers were appalled at living conditions in the South. The non-capitalist nature of the South affected their farms - the person who bought your cotton & tobacco usually had a monopoly so could pay you whatever he wanted. That same guy often control the local drover's wagonry, and might even have an interest in one of the 100+ teensy tiny railroad companies in the South.

in the North, a farmer could sell to a variety of dealers, and usually negotiate a better deal. The railroad companies were fewer in number, but far larger, so they were never beholden to some local despot. Years later, the railroad companies got big for their britches and started to form their own monopolies of course, but most of this hadn't happened by 1860.

Why didn't the north have slaves? They were making far more money by having actual skilled workers even if those workers didn't have forcible loyalty. The South misinterpreted the Northern men as "wage slaves". Southern propaganda claimed Northern men HAD to stay with their bosses to get their salaries. In the first place, this wasn't true - Northern workers switched jobs all the time. In the second place, even if it had been true, the Southern practice of "you can't switch jobs because massa will hit you with a stick" is hardly morally superior.

The South literally propagandized against the North because they thought capitalism was bad, and they wanted the mercantilist, paternalistic system of the South. (They didn't call capitalism by that name, but it's quite clear what they were talking about in their condemnation of shopkeepers and trusts.)

The Civil War wasn't just slavery vs. freedom. It wasn't just region vs. region. It was the triumph of capitalism over feudalism and I am proud of my ancestors who participated in it and helped to destroy one of the biggest evils in the world.

Sadly, slavery persisted after the American Civil War (it's still around today), but the fact it was crushed in the South was still a huge blessing. Even when the South tried to roll it back after Reconstruction, they weren't able to completely destroy the new system.
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One of the most interesting theories in ME/CFS - and in Long Covid too - is the IDO metabolic trap idea from Robert Phair and Ron Davis. Not because it’s proven, but because it’s one of the few theories that tries to explain why people get stuck.

It doesn’t treat post viral illness as vague bad luck, or as a list of symptoms floating around. It asks a harder question - what if the body isn’t failing to recover - what if it’s been pushed into the wrong stable state?

The theory centers on tryptophan metabolism. Normally tryptophan is processed down the kynurenine pathway, and the enzymes IDO1 and IDO2 help regulate that flow. Phair and Davis asked whether, under the wrong conditions, that system could basically jam.